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What Are Your Thoughts? By Allen Brown, President & CEO of The Open Group This year marks the 30th anniversary of my class graduation from the London Business School MBA program. It was 3 years of working full-time for Unilever … Continue reading →
Throughout this blog series we talked about using ArchiMate, and approaches for setting up ArchiMate models. We first discussed a top-down, and then a bottom-up approach, and presented examples from our consulting practice for both. Now here i…
In the previous posting we presented best practices for setting up ArchiMate models using a bottom-up approach. In this posting we will describe three case examples illustrating the added value of solution models. The three cases are:
Did you ever wonder what a strange beast the Grouping Relation in the ArchiMate zoo of elements and relations is? According to the standard it is a ‘relation’. It is, however, one of the weirdest elements of ArchiMate. Officially it … Continue reading →
Architects generally wrestle with the problem of communicating their complex world of dependencies to stakeholders. Those that created the ArchiMate language hoped that making a better language would enable clearer communication. While ArchiMate does enable more precise communication than your average … Continue reading →
In the previous postings we zoomed in on developing “top-down” or “enterprise” models, laced with many practical tips to help practitioners to get started. In this post we tackle the other end of the spectrum, and discuss how to get started with “Bottom-up” or “solution” models. We will zoom in on several aspects, including structuring your models, and linking to your enterprise models.
A while back, I wrote in the blog post ArchiMate is overrated (and underrated) that using ArchiMate doesn’t really have that much added value for communicating simple, high-level views to stakeholders (users, management), but its structure does bring advantages that enables us to … Continue reading →
In this post we continue to describe examples for ArchiMate modeling using a top-down modeling strategy. In the previous posting we presented some examples from the business architecture domain, in this posting we will cover three example…
This is not your usual architecture book as its title suggests it is about modelling using the ArchiMate notation. The author doesn’t promote any particular tool and concentrates on the notation, which recently underwent a major revision. Whether you are new to ArchiMate or have been using it for some time I think you’ll find […]
In the previous posting we explained two strategies for getting started with ArchiMate modeling: top-down and bottom-up. Over-simplifying, we suggested to use “inventory style” models (to catalog the ‘things we have / do’) and then figuring out the relations between them. There’s usually a lot of information that can be (re)used. Also, the ideal approach is using a workshop setting.
By William Estrem, President, Metaplexity Associates LLC, Serge Thorn, Associate, Metaplexity Associates LLC, and Sonia Gonzalez, Architecture and ArchiMate® Forums Director, The Open Group If you are using the TOGAF® standard in your organization to guide the process of developing … Continue reading →
So I got my ArchiMate® certification… now what? Does that sound familiar at all? We see a lot of organizations and professionals struggle with the questions on how to get started with their enterprise architecture models. This makes sense: there’s an overwhelming amount of practical guidance (often piecemeal, though) available online, the pressure might be on (there is a lot of places where we expect ArchiMate models to add value) and the company has just invested in training and tooling (Check out our flagship tool, BiZZdesign Architect).